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Society of School Librarians ALA Notable Children’s Books What Are You A Few Blocks International (SSLI) 2011 2012 Doing? Written and illustrated by Cybèle Young Honor Book Award Written by Elisa Amado Sita’s Ramayana Illustrated by Manuel Monroy alcuin society award Gangs: A Groundwork Guide Written by Samhita Arni the latinidad list: Written by Richard Swift Illustrated by Moyna Chitrakar best latino books of 2011

Mother Number Zero No Ordinary Day Written by Deborah Ellis Written by Marjolijn Hof Money Boy Migrant Translated by Johanna W. Prins and Johanna H. Prins Migrant Written by Paul Yee Written by Maxine Trottier Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault Written by Maxine Trottier stonewall honor Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault book great lakes great Cooperative Children’s Book books award Center Choices 2012 Queen of Hearts Written by Martha Brooks I’ll Be Watching Written by Pamela Porter Sita’s Ramayana The Composition 2012 USBBY Outstanding Written by Samhita Arni Written by Antonio Skármeta Grandpa’s Girls Illustrated by Moyna Chitrakar Illustrated by Alfonso Ruano Written by Nicola I. Campbell International Books tla 2012 maverick Translated by Elisa Amado Illustrated by Kim LaFave graphic novel list scholastic parent & Loon new york times best child magazine 100 Let’s Go See Papá! Written by Susan Vande Griek seller greatest books for kids Written by Lawrence Schimel Illustrated by Karen Reczuch Illustrated by Alba Marina Rivera Translated by Elisa Amado Sita’s Ramayana Written by Samhita Arni Mr. and Mrs. Bunny — Out of the Way! No Ordinary Day Illustrated by Moyna Chitrakar Detectives Out of the Way! Written by Deborah Ellis Extraordinaire! Written by Uma Krishnaswami Migrant Written by Polly Horvath Illustrated by Uma Krishnaswamy Written by Maxine Trottier ★ horn book starred ★ kirkus starred review Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault review Kirkus Best Books of 2011 ★ publishers weekly When Apples Grew Noses and starred review A Few Blocks White Horses Flew: Written and illustrated by Cybèle Young Tales of Ti-Jean Tilt Written by Jan Andrews Illustrated by Dušan Petričić Jimmy the Greatest! Written by Alan Cumyn Written by Jairo Buitrago High Riders, Saints and Death Illustrated by Rafael Yockteng Queen of Hearts Cars: A Life Saved by Art Translated by Elisa Amado ★ kirkus starred review Written by Martha Brooks Written by Nicholas Herrera as told to Elisa Amado Photos by John T. Denne ★ publishers weekly starred review

We acknowledge for their ﬁ nancial support of our publishing program the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Media Development Corporation, and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF).

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By Jorge Luján Illustrated by Chiara Carrer Translated by Elisa Amado

A small boy’s encounter with a beetle could have drastic consequences in this simple, strongly moral story, with strikingly original art from one of Italy’s finest children’s book illustrators.

When Stephen spots a beetle he takes off his shoe and raises his arm, ready to strike... but then he has second thoughts. He lays his head down on the ground and the beetle walks right up to him. At the last moment the beetle turns aside and each can go on with the day, having avoided the worst.

In this very simple story Jorge Luján presents the kind of deep moral question that can occur in even the smallest child’s day. Chiara Carrer’s very original

• JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / etched and painted illustrations perfectly complement the story, and are in Values & Virtues and of themselves beautiful works of art. • 978-1-55498-192-2 • $18.95 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS • Hardback with printed dust jacket Jorge Luján is a prolific and highly respected author and poet. He has worked • Ages 2 - 5 with many of the world’s greatest illustrators to create an outstanding body of

work. His books include Rooster / Gallo, Tarde de invierno / Winter Afternoon, • 36 pages, full color Beyond My Hand, Daybreak, Nightfall, Sky Blue Accident / Accidente • 7.875" x 11.25" celeste, Con el sol en los ojos / With the Sun in My Eyes and Colors! /

Colores! He has won many awards, including the Premio de Poesia para • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA, US Ninos de ALIJA (IBBY, Argentina). He is also a musician and architect. Jorge Other Formats lives in Mexico City.

EPUB $16.95 Chiara Carrer is one of Italy’s best-known children’s book illustrators. She has 978-1-55498-315-5 been creating children’s books for more than twenty years, with more than one hundred titles to her credit. Chiara has won many major awards, including ALSO AVAILABLE the UNICEF Prize, the Austrian Kinder und Jugendbuch-Illustrationspreis, the Doggy Slippers BolognaRagazzi New Horizons Award (Special Mention) and the Golden Jorge Luján Apple at the Biennial of Illustration, Bratislava. She also teaches art and has Isol exhibited her work in Europe, Japan and Brazil. She lives in Rome. $18.95

Snow Children August 1, 2012

Written and illustrated by Masako Yamashita

A gentle, sweetly illustrated story about two snow children who discover the importance of global warming and decide to do something about it.

Yuta and Yuna are snow children. They are attending an ice festival in their hometown when they hear about a meeting on global warming. Yuna doesn’t want to go, but Yuta persuades her. On their way they meet a family of rabbits who have almost been buried by an avalanche, hungry polar bears who • JUVENILE FICTION / Nature & the Natural can no longer hunt on the frozen ocean, and a herd of caribou who can’t find World / Weather the grasses they like to eat. • 978-1-55498-144-1 • $17.95 Snow people from all around the world have gathered for the meeting, and • Hardback with printed dust jacket although Yuta and Yuna feel shy, they tell the group about the animals they • Ages 4 - 7 have encountered. "Colder is better," some people say. "Maybe, but what can

we do about the heat?" say others. • 32 pages, full color • 8.0625" x 8.25 But when shimmering snowflakes begin to fall, all the snow people are filled with joy. They recognize that they have a beautiful world and that it is up to • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA, US them to save it.

Other Formats This is a picture book that works well as a story and as a vehicle to address the crucial issue of global warming with very young children. It includes facts EPUB $15.95 978-1-55498-316-2 on the effects of climate change as well as a list of things that even the youngest readers can do to help the situation.

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR ALSO AVAILABLE Masako Yamashita has had a lifelong passion for painting and drawing, and The Red Rock she studied traditional Japanese painting in Kyoto. Her illustrations have won Tomio Nitto a number of awards and prizes at picture book competitions in Japan. This is $16.95 CAD/$15.95 US her first picture book. She and her husband, a former diplomat, have lived in the United States, Indonesia, Belgium, Taiwan, Germany, Bangladesh, Sweden and Canada. They now live in Tokyo.

Stella! October 1, 2012 A Treasury

Written and illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay

Here at last are all five of Marie-Louise Gay’s beloved Stella picture books bound into one glorious volume.

Marie-Louise Gay published Stella, Star of the Sea more than ten years ago. It was an immediate hit, and since then she has written and illustrated four

• JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings more books featuring the engaging red-headed heroine, Stella, and her little

• 978-1-55498-292-9 brother, Sam — Stella, Queen of the Snow; Stella, Fairy of the Forest; Stella, • $24.95 Princess of the Sky and, most recently, When Stella Was Very, Very Small.

• Hardback with printed dust jacket With gentle humor, freshness, a sense of whimsy and exquisite watercolors, - • Ages 2 - 5 Marie-Louise Gay gives us stories about two young siblings discovering their

world.

• 176 pages, full color Stella, Star of the Sea: Stella and Sam are spending the day at the sea. • 9" x 9" Stella has been to the sea before and knows all its secrets, but Sam has

many questions and Stella has an answer for them all. The only thing she • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA, US isn’t sure of, and neither are we, is whether Sam will ever come into the water.

ALSO AVAILABLE Stella, Queen of the Snow: Winter was never so magical as in this marvelous book about Stella and Sam discovering a familiar landscape Caramba and Henry transformed by a heavy snowfall. Stella delights in showing Sam the many ’ Marie-Louise Gay pleasures of a beautiful winter s day, from skating and sledding to making $17.95 snow angels in a fluffy, white magical world.

Stella, Fairy of the Forest: Little brother Sam wonders whether fairies are invisible. Stella assures him that she has seen hundreds of them and says that if she and Sam venture across the meadow and into the forest, they are likely to find some. But Sam surprises Stella and himself by having a few ideas of his own.

Stella, Princess of the Sky: Stella and Sam explore the wonders of the natural world. A vast luminous sky, the sun, the stars and the rising moon form the backdrop for their nocturnal expedition.

When Stella Was Very, Very Small: This is the story of a lovely tiny Stella, whose world is full of small adventures and slivers of magic. And she delights in sharing it all with Sam when he comes along.

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR Marie-Louise Gay is a world-renowned author and illustrator of children's books. She has won many prestigious awards, including the Governor General's Award, the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award, the Vicky Metcalf Award and the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. She has also been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Her books have been translated into more than fifteen languages and are loved by children all over the world. She lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Nocturne September 1, 2012 Dream Recipes

By Isol

A boring dream is a waste of a night! Nocturne: Dream Recipes offers the solution. Anyone can use this witty book with glow-in-the-dark pictures to inspire nights of wonderful dreams.

Nocturne: Dream Recipes is a unique bedtime book that hints at the magic inherent in dreaming. Twelve glow-in-the-dark pictures present possible inspirations for a night in which the hidden world becomes visible. Just choose a dream from among the pictures and descriptions in the book, and then turn off the light to see a surprising glow-in-the-dark image. Included are dreams such as the dream of going far away, the dream of the cat who smelled the

tuna casserole, and even the drawn dream (which children can create

• JUVENILE FICTION / Bedtime & Dreams themselves). • 978-1-55498-179-3 Once again Isol’s extraordinary creativity and humor have produced a truly • $17.95 wonderful, very original book. • Coil binding with stand-up easel • Ages 4+ ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR

Isol is an Argentine author and illustrator of children’s books with a passion for • 32 pages, full color comic book artistry, literature and the visual arts. She has been nominated for • 6.5" x 9.046875" the Astrid Lindgren Award, has been selected twice as a finalist for the Hans

Christian Andersen Award and has won a Golden Apple at the Biennial of • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA, US Illustration, Bratislava. Her delightful leporello, Tener un patito es util / It’s Useful to Have a Duck, was chosen by AIGA as one of its "50 Books/50 ALSO AVAILABLE Covers" for concept and design, and it was also named one of "Los mejores The Black Book of libros para niños y jóvenes 2008" (The best books for children and youth Colors 2008) by Venezuela’s Banco del Libro. She has also written and illustrated Menena Cottin Petit, the Monster and Beautiful Griselda, and she has illustrated Doggy Rosana Faría Slippers by Jorge Luján. Her books are highly acclaimed by reviewers and $17.95 have been published in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, France, Canada and the US. Isol is also an advertising illustrator, a professional singer and a comic book writer. She lives in Buenos Aires.

A Few Bites September 1, 2012

Written and illustrated by Cybèle Young

In this sequel to A Few Blocks, acclaimed artist Cybèle Young uses collage and paper sculpture to tell the story of an older sister creating imaginary worlds to persuade her brother to eat his lunch. In the end he turns the tables. • JUVENILE FICTION / Imagination & Play It’s time for Ferdie to eat lunch, but he’d much rather find the special part for • 978-1-55498-295-0 his fighter ship. When big sister Viola promises to help him, he comes to the • $18.95 table. But he finds broccoli on his plate, and carrots! Ever resourceful and • Hardback with printed dust jacket imaginative, Viola convinces Ferdie that dinosaurs ate broccoli to escape their • Ages 4 - 7 fiercest predators, and that carrots are just like the Orange Power Sticks that • 48 pages, full color aliens eat for super vision. Doesn’t Ferdie want to be just like them? Viola

• 10.375" x 7.125" continues to persuade Ferdie to eat up, but when her energy finally flags, it’s Ferdie’s turn to create a wonderful surprise. • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA, US Just as in A Few Blocks, an ordinary event seen through a child’s eyes becomes an amazing adventure. This time the children switch back and forth between the lunch table and the elaborate fantasy worlds they imagine ALSO AVAILABLE (shown in Cybèle Young’s intricate paper sculptures, which she has created A Few Blocks from paintings of the children’s surroundings). At the end of the story, the Cybèle Young world of the imagination and the everyday magically come together, and Viola $18.95 and Ferdie each enjoy a few bites.

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR

Cybèle Young is an award-winning artist who exhibits her exquisite paper sculpture (Japanese paper printed with etched copperplates) internationally. She has illustrated several books for children, including Pa’s Harvest by Jan Andrews, which was nominated for a Governor General’s Award for Illustration, and Jack Pine by Christopher Patton. She has most recently written and illustrated A Few Blocks, a Kirkus Best Children’s Book and winner of an Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design, and Ten Birds, winner of a Governor General’s Award for Illustration. Cybèle lives with her family in Toronto.

La Malinche October 1, 2012 The Princess Who Helped Cortés Conquer the Aztec Empire

Written by Francisco Serrano Illustrated by Pablo Serrano Translated by Susan Ouriou

This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of "La Malinche," the remarkable woman who became an interpreter and advisor to Hernán

• JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Cortés. To some she was the mother of a mestizo Mexico, while to Autobiography / Historical others she was a traitor to her people. • 978-1-55498-111-3 In the early 1500s, Hernán Cortés and his conquistadors defeated the great • $18.95 Aztec Empire, built a new city for colonists from Spain and took control of • Hardback with printed dust jacket vast lands stretching from today’s southwestern US down through most of • Ages 9 - 12 Central America. • 40 pages, full color But many people don’t know that one of the reasons for the success of this • 8.25" x 10.625" conquest was the invaluable help of a beautiful woman, Princess Malinali, known today as La Malinche. She was a Náhuatl princess from the coast • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA, US lands of Tabasco whose kingdom was at war with the Aztec Empire. Because of her knowledge of Maya and Náhuatl languages, and her rapid acquisition of ALSO AVAILABLE Spanish, she came to act as an interpreter and advisor to Cortés. She also The Poet King of bore him a child. Tezcoco Francisco Serrano La Malinche is described here, as she often is in Mexico, as the embodiment Pablo Serrano of a new culture, one in which the mixing of races, Spanish and Aztec, $18.95 created a new world. This view is not shared by all Mexicans, however. For some La Malinche is the symbol of a great betrayal that led to the death of millions of her fellow indigenous people. No one disagrees, however, that La Malinche was an extraordinary woman, whose life is fundamental to understanding the history of ancient and modern Mexico.

Includes beautiful illustrations by Pablo Serrano, maps, a timeline and further reading.

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Francisco Serrano is a noted Mexican poet who also writes plays, librettos and children’s books and edits literary anthologies. He is the author of The Poet King of Tezcoco (New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing) and Our Lady of Guadalupe (La Virgen de Guadalupe). He lives in Mexico City.

Pablo Serrano is a visual artist who studied at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), where he took classes with the painter Luis Nishizawa. He has shown his work in solo and group exhibitions and received an honorable mention in the Aguascalientes 2002 competition for young artists. He has also illustrated The Poet King of Tezcoco. He lives in Mexico City.

One Year in Coal Harbour September 1, 2012

Written by Polly Horvath

The long-awaited, ever-so-charming follow-up to the Newbery Honor Book Everything on a Waffle!

Readers rejoice — Primrose Squarp is back! The wise and curious heroine of the Newbery Honor Book Everything on a Waffle is facing another adventure- filled year in Coal Harbour. Even though her parents, once lost at sea, are home, there’s a whole slew of problems and mysteries to keep Primrose — and eager fans — busy. There’s Uncle Jack and Kate Bowzer, who may (or may not) be in love. There’s Ked, a foster child, who becomes Primrose’s friend. And there’s the new development on the outskirts of town that threatens the Coal Harbour Primrose knows and treasures. Prolific and

brilliant, Horvath has delivered a masterful sequel to a beloved novel, sure to

please old fans and gain new ones.

• JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • 978-1-55498-188-5 Polly Horvath is one of the most highly acclaimed authors writing today. Her • $14.95 CAD books include The Canning Season (winner of the National Book Award and • Trade paperback with flaps the CLA Young Adult Book Award), Everything on a Waffle (a Newbery Honor • Ages 9 - 12 Book, an ALA Notable Book and winner of the Mr. Christie’s Book Award and

the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize), The Trolls (National Book • 224 pages Award finalist), My One Hundred Adventures (a School Library Journal Best • 5.5" x 8.25" Book of the Year, a Booklist Editors’ Choice, a Kirkus Reviews Best

Children’s Book of the Year and winner of a NAPPA Gold Award and the • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize), and Northward to the Moon (an Other Formats Oprah’s Book Club Kids’ Reading List selection and winner of a Parents’ Choice Gold Award). Her most recent book is Mr. and Mrs. Bunny — EPUB $14.95 Detectives Extraordinaire! 978-1-55498-310-0 Polly lives in Metchosin, British Columbia.

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That Night's Train October 1, 2012

Written by Ahmad Akbarpour Translated by Majid Saghafi

A young motherless girl becomes friends with a teacher/writer who weaves the story of their friendship into her novel. A moving book about promises and the nature of stories.

On a train trip with her grandmother, young Banafsheh meets a woman who reminds her of her dead mother. The woman is a teacher and a writer, and • JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / Middle East she promises she will call Banafsheh and come and tell her stories. Later, the • 978-1-55498-169-4 teacher weaves the encounter into a story that she tells to the children in her • $14.95 classroom. The children are entranced by the story and imagine how it will • Hardback with printed dust jacket turn out. Surely, they say, the teacher will call the little girl.

• Ages 9+ But the teacher never calls, though Banafsheh waits faithfully by the phone • 96 pages and refuses even to go out to play. Meanwhile, the teacher is disconcerted by

• 5" x 7.5" her class’s reaction, and she agonizes over how to end her story. As a writer,

she feels that the story is more important than anything else, and that the • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA US ending must be exciting and eventful, no matter what. Perhaps Banafsheh will Other Formats even have to become ill and die?

EPUB $9.95 In the end, the teacher does visit Banafsheh, but finds that it is too little too 978-1-55498-306-3 late. Banafsheh is very angry with the teacher, and hurt. Finally, the teacher Trade Paperback $9.95 (US 2014) makes the biggest sacrifice she knows — her manuscript — in order to save 978-1-55498-170-0 the friendship.

This is a thought-provoking and emotionally powerful novel that raises ALSO AVAILABLE intriguing and child-friendly questions about how real life and stories are Home Is Beyond interwoven, who owns stories, and whether they can ever truly disappear. the Mountains ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR Celia Barker Lottridge $12.95 CAD/$8.95 US Ahmad Akbarpour is a novelist, short-story writer and author of children’s books. He has won the Iranian National Book Award and was selected for the IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) honor list in 2006. He is the author of the picture book Good Night, Commander, illustrated by Morteza Zahedi. He lives in Shiraz, Iran.

Nobody Knows August 1, 2012

Written by Shelley Tanaka

Based on a true story, from the award-winning film by Hirokazu Kore-eda, this is a powerfully moving novel about four children who become invisible to almost everyone in their community and manage — for a time — to survive on their own.

It’s autumn in Tokyo, and twelve-year-old Akira and his younger siblings, Kyoko, Shige and little Yuki, have just moved into a new apartment with their mother. Akira hopes it’s a new start for all of them, even though the little ones are not allowed to leave the apartment or make any noise, since the landlord doesn’t permit young children in the building. But their mother soon begins to spend more and more time away from the apartment, and then one morning Akira finds an envelope of money and a note. She has gone away with her new boyfriend for a while.

• JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings Akira bravely shoulders the responsibility for the family. He shops and cooks

and pays the bills, while Kyoko does the laundry. The children spend their • 978-1-55498-140-3 time watching TV, drawing and playing games, wishing they could go to • $16.95 school and have friends like everyone else. Then one morning their mother • Hardback with printed dust jacket breezes in with gifts for everyone, but she is soon gone again. • Ages 10+ Months pass, until one spring day Akira decides they have been prisoners in • 160 pages, b/w photos the apartment long enough. For a brief time the children bask in their freedom. • 5" x 7.5" They shop, explore, plant a little balcony garden, have the playground to • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA, US themselves. Even when the bank account is empty and the utilities are turned off and the children become increasingly ill-kempt, it seems that they have Other Formats been hiding for nothing. In the bustling big city, nobody notices them. It’s as if EPUB $9.95 nobody knows. 978-1-55498-305-6 Trade paperback $9.95 (US 2014) But by August the city is sweltering, and the children are too malnourished 978-1-55498-118-2 and exhausted even to go out. Akira is afraid to contact child welfare, remembering the last time the authorities intervened, and the family was split up. Eventually even he can’t hold it together any more, and then one day ALSO AVAILABLE tragedy strikes... Middle of Nowhere Caroline Adderson ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR $9.95 CAD (US 2013) Shelley Tanaka is an award-winning author, translator and editor. She has written more than twenty books for children and young adults, winning the Orbis Pictus Award, the Mr. Christie’s Book Award, the Science in Society Book Award and the Information Book Award, and she has twice been nominated for the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis. Other honors include Texas Blue Bonnet runner-up, School Library Journal Best Books, ALA Notables and IRA Young Adults’ Choice. Shelley teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts, in the MFA Program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She lives in Kingston, Ontario.

September 1, 2012 (Canada) My Name Is Parvana October 1, 2012 (US)

By Deborah Ellis

In this stunning sequel to The Breadwinner, Parvana, now fifteen, is found in a bombed-out school and held as a suspected terrorist by American troops in Afghanistan.

On a military base in post-Taliban Afghanistan, American authorities have just imprisoned a teenaged girl. The army major thinks she may be a terrorist working with the Taliban. The girl does not respond to questions in any language and remains silent, even when she is threatened, harassed and mistreated over several days. The only clue to her identity is a tattered shoulder bag containing papers that refer to people named Shauzia, Nooria, Leila, Asif, Hassan — and Parvana.

As Parvana waits for foreign military forces to determine her fate, she • JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / remembers the past four years of her life. Reunited with her mother and Middle East sisters, she has been living in a village where her mother has finally managed • 978-1-55498-297-4 to open a school for girls. But even though the Taliban has been driven from • $16.95 the government, the country is still at war, and many continue to view the • Hardback with printed dust jacket education and freedom of girls and women with suspicion and fear. • Ages 11+ As her family settles into the routine of running the school, Parvana, a bit to • 176 pages her surprise, finds herself restless and bored. She even thinks of running • 5.25" x 8" away. But when local men threaten the school and her family, she must draw on every ounce of bravery and resilience she possesses to survive the • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA, US disaster that kills her mother, destroys the school, and puts her own life in jeopardy.

Other Formats A riveting page-turner, Deborah Ellis’s new novel is at once harrowing,

EPUB, $16.95 inspiring and thought-provoking. And, yes, in the end, Parvana is reunited with 978-1-55498-299-8 her childhood friend, Shauzia.

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR ALSO AVAILABLE Deborah Ellis is best known for her Breadwinner Trilogy set in Afghanistan The Breadwinner and Pakistan — a series that has been published in twenty-five languages, Trilogy with more than one million dollars in royalties donated to Canadian Women for Deborah Ellis Women in Afghanistan and Street Kids International. She has won the $18.95 Governor General’s Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award, the University of California’s Middle East Book Award, Sweden’s Peter Pan Prize, the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award and the Vicky Metcalf Award for a Body of Work. She recently received the Ontario Library Association’s President’s Award for Exceptional Achievement, and she has been named to the Order of Ontario. Deborah lives in Simcoe, Ontario.

Last Leaf First Snowflake September 15, 2012 to Fall

Written and illustrated by Leo Yerxa

A beautifully illustrated, award-winning picture book from Leo Yerxa, an artist of Ojibway ancestry, now available in paperback.

Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall takes us on a dreamlike voyage into nature at that secret moment when fall turns into winter. We find ourselves in a kind of paradise, which humans may be part of but which they have not despoiled. A father and son lead us through forests, down rivers, over lakes and ponds. Along the way we experience the primordial beauty of the physical world. This is nature as we all feel in our hearts it must once have been. Through lyrical

words and a masterful collage technique, Leo Yerxa has created an exquisite • JUVENILE FICTION / Nature & the Natural World / General and poetic evocation of this moment. • 978-1-55498-124-3 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR • $9.95 • Trade paperback Leo Yerxa was born on the Little Eagle Reserve in northern Ontario. His first book, Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall, was nominated for a Governor • Ages 5 - 8 General’s Award and won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award, the Mr.

Christie’s Book Award and the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award. His book • 32 pages, full color Ancient Thunder won the 2006 Governor General’s Award for Illustration. Leo • 8" x 10.75" lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

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ALSO AVAILABLE Ancient Thunder Leo Yerxa $9.95

Un barrilete para el Día de August 1, 2012 los Muertos / Barrilete: A Kite for the Day of the Dead

Written by Elisa Amado Photographs by Joya Hairs Translated by Claudia M. Lee

Now available in a bilingual paperback edition, this is a beautifully photographed story about three Guatemalan brothers who, upon the • JUVENILE NONFICTION / Holidays & Celebrations / Other, Non-Religious death of their grandfather, lead their family’s Day of the Dead • 978-1-55498-112-0 celebrations.

• $9.95 In Guatemala, there is a village called Santiago Sacatepéquez. It is a very • Trade paperback small but famous place because once a year, on the Day of the Dead, the • Ages 5 - 9 people of Santiago fly some of the biggest kites in the world. As large as seven meters (twenty-three feet) in diameter, they fill the sky over the • 32 pages, full color cemetery with brilliant colors. • 8.25" x 8.625" Juan and his brothers always helped their grandfather build the kite for the

Day of the Dead. But this year the boys must carry on the tradition on their • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA, US own. This fascinating book shows us the village of Santiago and tells us Juan’s story as he gathers the materials, builds the kite and, finally, flies it ALSO AVAILABLE with the help of his friends. What Are You Doing? ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Elisa Amado Elisa Amado is a Guatemalan-born author and translator who once flew one of $16.95 the barriletes of Santiago. She has written Cousins (Primas) and Tricycle (El

triciclo), which is on the Américas Award Commended List and is a USBBY Outstanding International Book. Her most recent book, What Are You Doing? (illustrated by Manuel Monroy), has received stellar reviews. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Joya Hairs, who lived in Guatemala for thirty years, is a renowned photographer. She visited Santiago Sacatepéquez many times to visit the kite makers. This book was photographed in the 1970s, before the civil war that

resulted in the deaths of many Maya.

Doctor Kiss Says Yes August 1, 2012

Written by Teddy Jam Illustrated by Joanne Fitzgerald

A new edition of the magical Governor General’s Award-winning book, now reissued as a fundraiser for IBBY Canada’s Joanne Fitzgerald Fund.

Doctor Kiss is quite prepared to say yes when she finds a letter asking her to come to the aid of a young knight who has been injured in battle. She waits

• JUVENILE FICTION / Bedtime & Dreams until after her usual goodnight kisses and hugs from her parents, and then she • 978-1-55498-194-6 takes her medical bag and climbs through her bedroom window into a gilded, • $17.95 magical world from the age of chivalry. • Hardback with printed dust jacket Teddy Jam and Joanne Fitzgerald have created a richly satisfying story about • Ages 4 - 7 a very imaginative young heroine. Winner of the Governor General’s Award for

Illustration when it was first published in 1991, this new edition will delight a • 32 pages, full color whole new generation of young readers. • 9" x 8.5" All royalties from the sales of this book will be donated to the Joanne Fitzgerald Fund at IBBY Canada. • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA, US ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Other Formats Teddy Jam (Matt Cohen) was the pseudonymous author of many wonderful EPUB $17.95 children’s books, including Night Cars, illustrated by Eric Beddows, This New 978-1-55498-261-5 Baby, illustrated by Virginia Johnson, and How We Were, illustrated by Ange Zhang. He was also a novelist and won the Governor General’s Award for his last novel, Elizabeth and After. ALSO AVAILABLE

How We Were Joanne Fitzgerald was a very talented illustrator who had a rewarding and

Teddy Jam prolific career in children’s books. She illustrated many well-loved titles, such Ange Zhang as The Little Rooster and the Diamond Button (winner of the Mr. Christie’s $25.00 Book Award) and Ten Small Tales by Celia Barker Lottridge, and Emily’s House by Niko Scharer. She also wrote and illustrated several books, including This is Me and Where I Am.

Tecumseh August 1, 2012

Written by James Laxer Illustrated by Richard Rudnicki

A gorgeously illustrated biography of Tecumseh — the great leader of North America’s First Peoples — published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812.

Two hundred years after his death, the Shawnee chief Tecumseh is still considered one of the greatest leaders of North America`s First Peoples. This richly illustrated biography tells the story of his remarkable life, culminating in the War of 1812. Tecumseh, born in 1768, lived during turbulent times: the thirteen colonies

revolted against British rule, becoming the United States in 1776, and settlers • JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Canada / Pre-Confederation had begun to push westward, rapidly encroaching on the traditional lands of • 978-1-55498-123-6 the First Peoples. Tecumseh realized that unless the tribes came together to • $19.95 form a great confederacy, they would never be able to hold onto their land. • Hardback with printed dust jacket And so he began to travel great distances, encouraging many tribes to join • Ages 9 - 12 forces with him against the Americans.

On June 18, 1812, the US declared war on Great Britain. Tecumseh sided • 56 pages, full color with the British, hoping to create an independent native state north of the Ohio • 8.25" x 10.625" River. He developed a magnetic friendship with Major General Isaac Brock,

commander of the British troops in Upper Canada, and together they took Fort • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA, US Detroit. Tecumseh and Brock agreed that one of the goals of their alliance Other Formats should be to restore lands that had been taken from native peoples. But shortly afterwards Brock was killed in the Battle of Queenston Heights. EPUB, $19.95 978-1-55498-205-9 Tecumseh rallied those loyal to him and fought on relentlessly, but was killed in the Battle of Moraviantown in 1813. Tecumseh`s dreams were never fulfilled, but he remains a symbol of justice for the First Peoples of North America. ALSO AVAILABLE The book includes an epilogue, a timeline, a glossary and maps. The Red Sash Jean E. Pendziwol ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Nicolas Debon

$18.95 James Laxer is the award-winning author of twenty-four books, including

Tecumseh and Brock; the Groundwork Guides Empire, Oil and Democracy; The Acadians: In Search of a Homeland and The Border: Canada, the U.S. and Dispatches from the 49th Parallel. He was the host of Reckoning, a series of films on the global economy produced by the National Film Board of Canada. James Laxer is a professor of political science in the Department of Equity Studies at York University in Toronto, Ontario.

Richard Rudnicki has illustrated several award-winning children’s books, including Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged!, a finalist for the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction and for the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Book Illustration (Halifax). It has also been nominated for the Golden Oak Award and the Shining Willow Award. Richard is well known for his paintings of Nova Scotia. He also teaches figure drawing and portraiture and gives school workshops. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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Adderson, Caroline ...... 10 Melanson, Luc ...... 2 Akbarpour, Ahmad ...... 9 Middle of Nowhere ...... 10 Amado, Elisa ...... 1, 14 Mixter, Helen ...... 2 Ancient under ...... 13 Monroy, Manuel ...... 14 Applesauce ...... 2 Mother Number Zero ...... 17 Banjo of Destiny ...... 17 My Book of Life by Angel ...... 12 Barrilete para el Día de los Muertos, Un / My Great Big Mamma ...... 2 Barrilete: A Kite for the Day of the Dead . . 14 My Name Is Parvana ...... 11 Black Book of Colors, e ...... 5 Nitto, Tomio ...... 3 Breadwinner Trilogy, e ...... 11 Nobody Knows ...... 10 Caramba and Henry ...... 4 Nocturne: Dream Recipes ...... 5 Carrer, Chiara ...... 1 One Year in Coal Harbour ...... 8 Cottin, Menena ...... 5 Ouriou, Susan ...... 7 Debon, Nicolas ...... 16 Pendziwol, Jean E...... 16 Doctor Kiss Says Yes ...... 15 Poet King of Tezcoco, e ...... 7 Doggy Slippers ...... 1 Prins, Johanna H...... 17 Ellis, Deborah ...... 11 Prins, Johanna W...... 17 Everything on a Waffle ...... 8 Ravel, Edeet ...... 12 Fagan, Cary ...... 17 Red Rock, e ...... 3 Faría, Rosana ...... 5 Red Sash, e ...... 16 Few Bites, A ...... 6 Rudnicki, Richard ...... 16 Few Blocks, A ...... 6 Saghafi, Majid ...... 9 Fitzgerald, Joanne ...... 15 Saver, e ...... 12 Gay, Marie-Louise ...... 4 Serrano, Francisco ...... 7 Hairs, Joya ...... 14 Serrano, Pablo ...... 7 Hof, Marjolijn ...... 17 Snow Children ...... 3 Home Is Beyond the Mountains ...... 9 Stella! A Treasury...... 4 Horvath, Polly ...... 8 Stephen and the Beetle ...... 1 How We Were ...... 15 Tanaka, Shelley ...... 10 Isol ...... 1, 5 Tecumseh ...... 16 Jam, Teddy ...... 15 at Night’s Train ...... 9 Ka, Olivier ...... 2 Verplancke, Klaas ...... 2 Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall ...... 13 What Are You Doing? ...... 14 Laxer, James...... 16 Yamashita, Masako ...... 3 Leavitt, Martine ...... 12 Yerxa, Leo ...... 13 Lee, Claudia M...... 14 Young, Cybèle ...... 6 Lottridge, Celia Barker ...... 9 Zhang, Ange ...... 15 Luján, Jorge ...... 1 Malinche, La: e Princess Who Helped Cortés Conquer the Aztec Empire ...... 7 Groundwood Books Fulfillment and Distribution — Canada 110 Spadina Avenue, Suite 801 HarperCollins Canada Toronto, ON M5V 2K4 1995 Markham Road www.houseofanansi.com Toronto, ON M1B 5M8 416-321-2241 Sales Toll free: 1-800-387-0117 Fax: 416-321-3033 Barbara Howson, Vice-President, Sales Toll free: 1-800-668-5788 416-363-4343, ext. 233 [email protected] [email protected] SAN: 115026X Returns to: Same as above Allison Charles, International Sales Manager 416-363-4343, ext. 237 Sales Representatives [email protected]

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